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  • Sitting wth the Elders

    I sit with the elders of a generation this world has seldom seen.

    If you pay attention, you’ll note that’s been added to my signature line on various message boards. Sure, it’s like the lyrics of the Led Zeppelin song. Sure, it seems a little pretentious. Nevertheless, it’s true.

    I and my magical friends and nemeses are doing more meaningful magical acts today than I’ve ever been aware of in the occult realm. Pagans are paganing, CMs are returning to the grimoires in droves, magi are expecting magic to work, and demand explanations when it doesn’t.

    People are reading my stuff, linking to my sites, reading my articles, and getting inspired to do more Work. That’s awesome. I feel privileged to be a part of this generation.

    And my friends, they’re the most magically active members of the online community. We’re working on our own projects, comparing notes on different spirits we work with, and getting a lot done personally.

    I’m honored to be among them. They’re the elders of this generation, not necessarily in years, but in experience. We are the Crowleys, Matherses, and Westcotts of our generation. We are the Agrippas and Brunos and Iamblichuses and Plutarchs of our time. We are the masters of the Emerald Tablet, ascending to the heavens, and returning to the earth in great power to create the universe.

    It’s so easy, anyone can do it. If you want to do it, do it. You wouldn’t have a desire to do it if you weren’t capable. Do some magic. Talk to some spirits. Take the world by the balls and make it do your bidding. Heal the sick, empower the downtrodden, manipulate elections. Send evil upon your enemies and blessings upon your friends.

    Be a magician, and join the Elders of this mighty generation.

  • It’s not hate, it’s wrath

    Occupy Wall Street! Meet at Starbucks to Organize!

    FUCK YOU, ASSHOLE.
    Wake the fuck up. We’ve got ten thousand years of history on Wikipedia. Pick a fucking civilization. Any of the ones that have fallen. Look at what happened. Pick another, and tell me what was different. And another. And another. And another.
    Now look at your goddamned “culture.” Look at what you’re protesting FOR. You want the money the rich folks have so you can have that ipad. It’s not fair that THEY get the ipads, or droids, is it? It’s not fair that THEY get the best healthcare, secreted out in the middle of the night for clandestine liver transplants that you or I won’t qualify for unless we’re as rich and famous as Steve Jobs, is it? FUCK NO it isn’t fair!
    Nor has it ever been.
    But what you really want is to get “back” to being able to have whatever you want whenever you want it. You never had that, but shit, it wasn’t as hard as it is now, was it? People had jobs, and houses, and if you went to college, you were guaranteed a career, right? 
    No, not everyone. Not everyone in America, for sure. And remember the rest of the world? Humans from all over the world, 85% of whom make less than $2000 a year. Your life today in America, unemployed, uninsured, moved back in with mommy and daddy, no car, no club money… it’s still magnitudes greater than theirs ever was, or ever will be. Ever. 
    You are a spoiled ass bitchy whiny selfish rotten brat. 
    You mad bro? You should be. At yourself. 
    Here’s the TRVTH. Your life sucks because of who you are, and what you’ve done with it for the last few years. You’ve done the bare minimum, spent way to much, and you’re going to have to suck it up for 50-75 years, if things get better. Might be another Dark Age, who knows? 
    Life’s harder than you thought? Yeah. Wah. Hard to get a job? Yeah. Wah. Had to live with three generations of a single family under one roof when you were making a fortune in comparison before in a home in the suburbs? Wah.
    Hard times hit, and you’re either rolling with the punches, using the cycle to your advantage, or getting ass fucked and crying about it. Or getting the fuck out. 
    You idealists wanting to make the world more fair, look at history. It’s never been fair. You “idealists” aren’t even Idealists. You’re materialists. You want to work as little as possible and have as much as possible. You don’t want to have to grow a garden, can food, cook yourself, work together with other people in the community just to get by, that’s hard. That’s what POOR folk do! 
    Welcome to Humanity, bitches. 
    Feh. 
    You go Occupy with latte in hand!
    I’ll be ruling my kingdom like a King. Responsibly. Wisely. Proactively. Profitably. Aware of my means and living in them. Aware of the environmental impact of so-called conveniences. Keeping my family safe.
    If everyone “occupying” were to do the same, it wouldn’t matter what the bankers were doing. Demanding change from leadership, demanding redistribution of wealth and health is ignoring every other example of that same exact thing for the last ten thousand years. Slaves begging for a new master. 
    Look, it doesn’t matter where you go or what you do when you get there, it matters who you are all the time. Years of indolence and decadence have led to this stage, and it’s a profitable phase of societal breakdown for those with the heart, mind, and willingness to work to take advantage of what they’ve got to work with. All it takes is achieving your potential as a Human.

  • Remembering a Mother-in-law

    My mother-in-law passed away last Monday. It’s been a long week, funeral arrangements to make, two days of viewing the body, and today’s funeral. I had the honor of writing and presenting a eulogy for her at the service today. It went really well. The service was outstanding, and the funeral chapel did a wonderful job with everything. She was a good woman, and I realized at the viewings that she touched so many lives with her goodness.

    At the service, a great Catholic affair, I couldn’t discuss the things about her that meant the most to me personally. She was not an occultist, but she was a believer. One of the ladies that payed her respects was her tarot card reader, who also couldn’t talk about what role she played in my mother-in-law’s life. They had been expecting this for a while.

    My mother-in-law knew of my occult activities. She asked for help with my sister-in-law, and in addressing her needs, I learned a great deal about Bune, the Goetic spirit in my spirit pot, and Michael and Raphael. She saw angels and spirits, and was very aware of the spiritual realm in which we live and move and have our being. We had long talks about the spirit realm, and she always was interested in the things we talked about. It wasn’t like she was just asking to be nice, she really wanted to know what I thought about things. Her respect for me as a magician is something that meant a great deal to me.

    I’ll never forget the things she did for us as a family, and I’ll never forget that she treated me with dignity and respect, even in the realm of . We had our differences, but before she died we were at peace. The last thing she told me was that she was proud of me, and thanked God for my presence in her daughter’s life.

    The neat thing is, I know she’s still with us. When she was younger, she had a vision of an angel wearing a robe with two patches, one over her gall bladder, and one over her liver. For years she wondered what the patches represented. She passed away during a liver transplant surgery from an obscure liver disorder. They discovered it while removing her gall bladder. We’ve figured out the “angel” she saw that day was her own spirit, ministering peace to herself. she drew a picture of that angel the day she saw it, and everyone has commented on the “family resemblance,” some thinking it was her mother, others her father. No one had thought it might have been her.

    We’re looking forward to keeping in touch with her until we have a chance to join her.

  • Sitting wth the Elders

    I sit with the elders of a generation this world has seldom seen.

    If you pay attention, you’ll note that’s been added to my signature line on various message boards. Sure, it’s like the lyrics of the Led Zeppelin song. Sure, it seems a little pretentious. Nevertheless, it’s true.

    I and my magical friends and nemeses are doing more meaningful magical acts today than I’ve ever been aware of in the occult realm. Pagans are paganing, CMs are returning to the grimoires in droves, magi are expecting magic to work, and demand explanations when it doesn’t.

    People are reading my stuff, linking to my sites, reading my articles, and getting inspired to do more Work. That’s awesome. I feel privileged to be a part of this generation.

    And my friends, they’re the most magically active members of the online community. We’re working on our own projects, comparing notes on different spirits we work with, and getting a lot done personally.

    I’m honored to be among them. They’re the elders of this generation, not necessarily in years, but in experience. We are the Crowleys, Matherses, and Westcotts of our generation. We are the Agrippas and Brunos and Iamblichuses and Plutarchs of our time. We are the masters of the Emerald Tablet, ascending to the heavens, and returning to the earth in great power to create the universe.

    It’s so easy, anyone can do it. If you want to do it, do it. You wouldn’t have a desire to do it if you weren’t capable. Do some magic. Talk to some spirits. Take the world by the balls and make it do your bidding. Heal the sick, empower the downtrodden, manipulate elections. Send evil upon your enemies and blessings upon your friends.

    Be a magician, and join the Elders of this mighty generation.

  • Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter Results

    Well, that certainly didn’t take long. In the first weekend after creating the talisman, I enjoyed a very pleasant inflow of cash, and multiple long-term opportunities for multiple revenue streams.

    While I was hoping for a cash-cow, single-source bonanza of stupid-wealth, I never quite BOUGHT the lotto tickets, which pretty much ensures no winning there, eh?

    Anyway, I’m very happy with the results. Here’s a brief list:

    • Spouse landed a part-time job watching a friend’s son before and after school, adding about $600 a month to our income; there’s a chance another friend of hers is going back to work as well, and will need someone to watch her son too
    • Spouse had biggest weekend to date in Avon Sales after last week’s Work
    • My “Products and Services” have sold more in the last week than they did in the last year

    There were a few other things that happened rather positively in general. Respiratory infections we’d been fighting since October have left the house. It feels like a gentle “Happy Blanket” has descended on our house, for the most part, except for the ongoing low-grade warfare with my spouse. I scored a professional-grade laser printer-copier-scanner-fax for free. A bunch of other stuff that builds up wealth over time is coming into fruition at the same time.

    Note that even though the Gematria of the figure could be Jupiter-Taurus, and the ritual itself is Jupiter-Cancer, the actual manifestations so far have been in keeping with Jupiter in Capricorn, slow steady, carefully measured growth.

  • The Astral Warrior’s Handbook

    A long, long time ago, I started writing up a book I called The Astral Warrior for fun. In it I was planning on throwing out all those concerns about accomplishing the Great Work, all that fuddy duddy old dusty musty grimoire bullshit, and just having fun talking about the joys of Astral Magic, romping about the astral plane fighting demons and saving the world.

    And it is joyful. I love it. It’s like being a super hero in your own comic book. All those Neil Gaiman Sandman comics that talk about the land of Dream? Yeah, it’s like that. All the time. Beautiful stuff up there.

    But as I was writing it up, I realized that I use astral magic every day. It’s an intricate part of the Great Work. I talk a lot more about strategy and approach these days, and when I talk tech I talk about conjuring and seals and such, but I’ve overlooked the fundamental basic stuff that makes it all stick together, the Astral Magic part of it.

    Every time I conjure a spirit into a crystal, I’m gazing into the ball, but my third eye is wide open on the astral plane, where I can see and sense the spirits better, more clearly. When I’m doing a tarot card reading, the story line comes clear in the Astral, where I see the events indicated on the cards unfolding in the client’s world. When I’m doing cleansing and purification, initiations, or lifting curses for my clients over the internet, it’s the Astral realm that provides me with the ability to direct the magical effects around the world, bringing blessings, success, and victory to those with the balls to claim it on their behalf.

    And every day at work, I’m keeping an eye on the Astral plane to get a feel for the currents in the air, to keep track of politics, to catch warning signs of imminent danger, or discord before it can manifest as something unpleasant for me personally. When I’m stuck in traffic, I’ll lift my awareness and see what’s blocking the flow, and see what I can do to make it better so things move more quickly (usually applied Mercury, in some form). When I’m trying to keep a low profile, I weave a glamour in the astral and cloak myself in it. When I want to influence someone my way, I slip into the astral and give them a nudge toward agreeing with me.

    Astral magic is a part of all my magical acts. It’s everywhere!

    So I wrote up the Astral Warrior’s Handbook. I think it’s entertaining, but it contains a whole lot of really useful information, and a technique for creating an on-demand portal to the astral realm whenever you need to using a bit of Aggripinian magic that might be a bit baroque, but is damned useful.

    A lot of the things I touch on in this book are things that you can do much better if you’re also doing the magic I’ve been doing for years. The Gates Rites prepare you for this, as do the initiatory conjurations of the Archangels from the Modern Angelic Grimoire. Students of the Red Work Courses will be in a good position to utilize the techniques in this book, as will folks of other traditions.

    The Table of Contents is provided below as an overview of what you can expect in this handy guide:

    1 Astral Warriors ……………………………………. 3
    2 The Astral Realm……………………………………. 4
    2.1 Developing the Astral Faculty of the Mind …………… 5
    2.2 Vortex Creation ………………………………….. 6
    2.2.1 Opening the Vortex ……………………………… 7
    3 Taking Form ……………………………………….. 9
    4 Types of Astral Magic ……………………………… 11
    4.1 Sniffing Out Magical Attacks ……………………… 12
    4.2 Snooping and Spying ……………………………… 14
    4.3 Reading People’s Hearts and Minds …………………. 16
    4.4 Cleansing and Healing ……………………………. 17
    4.5 Combat …………………………………………. 19
    4.6 Manipulation ……………………………………. 22
    5 Astral Magic in the Great Work ……………………… 23

    The book is going for $11.95, my new favorite price to charge for eBooks. It’s 29 pages of stuff to do in the Astral Realms to get ahead and have some fun.

    And for the Google Checkout users:









    And please let me know if the buy now buttons don’t work. Sometimes I have issues.

  • Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter Results

    Well, that certainly didn’t take long. In the first weekend after creating the talisman, I enjoyed a very pleasant inflow of cash, and multiple long-term opportunities for multiple revenue streams.

    While I was hoping for a cash-cow, single-source bonanza of stupid-wealth, I never quite BOUGHT the lotto tickets, which pretty much ensures no winning there, eh?

    Anyway, I’m very happy with the results. Here’s a brief list:

    • Spouse landed a part-time job watching a friend’s son before and after school, adding about $600 a month to our income; there’s a chance another friend of hers is going back to work as well, and will need someone to watch her son too
    • Spouse had biggest weekend to date in Avon Sales after last week’s Work
    • My “Products and Services” have sold more in the last week than they did in the last year

    There were a few other things that happened rather positively in general. Respiratory infections we’d been fighting since October have left the house. It feels like a gentle “Happy Blanket” has descended on our house, for the most part, except for the ongoing low-grade warfare with my spouse. I scored a professional-grade laser printer-copier-scanner-fax for free. A bunch of other stuff that builds up wealth over time is coming into fruition at the same time.

    Note that even though the Gematria of the figure could be Jupiter-Taurus, and the ritual itself is Jupiter-Cancer, the actual manifestations so far have been in keeping with Jupiter in Capricorn, slow steady, carefully measured growth.

  • Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter Results

    Well, that certainly didn’t take long. In the first weekend after creating the talisman, I enjoyed a very pleasant inflow of cash, and multiple long-term opportunities for multiple revenue streams.

    While I was hoping for a cash-cow, single-source bonanza of stupid-wealth, I never quite BOUGHT the lotto tickets, which pretty much ensures no winning there, eh?

    Anyway, I’m very happy with the results. Here’s a brief list:

    • Spouse landed a part-time job watching a friend’s son before and after school, adding about $600 a month to our income; there’s a chance another friend of hers is going back to work as well, and will need someone to watch her son too
    • Spouse had biggest weekend to date in Avon Sales after last week’s Work
    • My “Products and Services” have sold more in the last week than they did in the last year

    There were a few other things that happened rather positively in general. Respiratory infections we’d been fighting since October have left the house. It feels like a gentle “Happy Blanket” has descended on our house, for the most part, except for the ongoing low-grade warfare with my spouse. I scored a professional-grade laser printer-copier-scanner-fax for free. A bunch of other stuff that builds up wealth over time is coming into fruition at the same time.

    Note that even though the Gematria of the figure could be Jupiter-Taurus, and the ritual itself is Jupiter-Cancer, the actual manifestations so far have been in keeping with Jupiter in Capricorn, slow steady, carefully measured growth.

  • Angel Conjuration Kits

    I’m selling more magickal stuff on my Products and Services page at my web site. This time I’m hoping to make some money off “Angel Conjuration Kits.” Everything you need for Love, Wealth, Health, Career Advancement, or Psychic development. That’s all I’ve got so far.

    I’m debating putting up something to do with magickal protection from attack, an Angelic equivalent to an Uncrossing rite, but I haven’t decided what would be safest for the most people in my audience. I’d use Saturn and Mars personally, but I don’t know where you all are at with Mars or Saturn, and I wouldn’t want to set off a series of unfortunate events in your life.

    Oh, and for the record, the Wealth rite is based on my Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter from the Key of Solomon rites. They’ve gone really well so far. Two days into it, and we’ve already got an increase of income to show for it.

  • Angel Conjuration Kits

    I’m selling more magickal stuff on my Products and Services page at my web site. This time I’m hoping to make some money off “Angel Conjuration Kits.” Everything you need for Love, Wealth, Health, Career Advancement, or Psychic development. That’s all I’ve got so far.

    I’m debating putting up something to do with magickal protection from attack, an Angelic equivalent to an Uncrossing rite, but I haven’t decided what would be safest for the most people in my audience. I’d use Saturn and Mars personally, but I don’t know where you all are at with Mars or Saturn, and I wouldn’t want to set off a series of unfortunate events in your life.

    Oh, and for the record, the Wealth rite is based on my Fourth Pentacle of Jupiter from the Key of Solomon rites. They’ve gone really well so far. Two days into it, and we’ve already got an increase of income to show for it.